Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
<span>Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen after Civil War
1) African Americans could marry & own some property but did not have rights of citizenship
2) help planters find workers to replace their slaves. Required freedmen to work
3) kept freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South. Most called for the segregation of blacks and whites in public places</span>
A benevolent society is a charity group organized to serve a community through programs, sponsorship and donations.There were three types of benevolent society in colonial and early national America.
The oldest were mutual societies, such as the St. Andrew's Society and the Union Society.
Benevolent associations were meant to help the poor who were not able to clothe or feed themselves.
